Clévid Florian Dikamona (born 23 June 1990) is a professional
footballer
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Congo
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* Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...
at international level.
Club career
Born in
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000, He then moved on to US Guérinière where he spent a couple of years, also frequently playing against the youth teams of SM Caen. It was in one of these games that he was spotted by scout Gilles Deshors and invited to play for the SM Caen youth side, signing for the club in 2001. He progressed through the various youth sides and was promoted to the reserve side in 2008 at the age of eighteen. He spent two seasons playing for the reserve side but was not offered a professional contract with the club after a dispute with the owners.
He spent time on trial at
Lille OSC
Lille Olympique Sporting Club (), commonly referred to as LOSC, LOSC Lille or simply Lille, is a French professional football club based in Lille, Hauts-de-France that competes in Ligue 1, the top flight of French football. Lille has played its ...
and was offered a one-year contract, but signed for
Ligue 2
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side Le Havre AC after they offered him a three-year deal. In his first season with the club he drifted between the first team and reserve side, making his professional debut in February 2011 in a 1–0 win over
Clermont Foot
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, replacing
Mody Traoré
Mody Traoré (born 14 July 1980) is a French retired professional footballer who played as a defender.
Career
Born in Metz, Traoré played youth football for Nancy. Apart from two loan stints at Ajaccio and Le Havre, he spent all of his career ...
as a substitute. In October 2011, he received a request to join
Football League One
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side
Sheffield Wednesday
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on trial. Sheffield Wednesday were keen on completing a deal, however a fee could not be agreed and Dikamona returned to France. In the winter break he returned to England with
Football League Championship
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club
Nottingham Forest
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on a one-week trial, however again a deal could not be agreed. On his return he spent the remainder of the season with the reserve side. The following season, he was close to signing for
Championnat National
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side US Boulogne on loan but the clubs could not agree a split in wages. In November 2012 he joined Championnat National side Fréjus Saint-Raphaël on loan until the end of the season. He became a first team regular for the side that challenged for promotion to Ligue 2, but missed out on the final day to
CA Bastia
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Their historic home stadium was the ...
having only needed a point to secure promotion.
Following the completion of his loan Dikamona was released by Le Havre and became a free agent. He later signed for CFA 2 side CS Sedan Ardennes on a free transfer, who had recently been demoted from Ligue 2. He was a first team regular making nineteen appearances and scoring three goals as the side finished in second place, gaining promotion to the CFA. He had the option to stay for another season with Sedan, however, he moved up a division to Championnat National side Poiré-sur-Vie. He was a regular for the first half of the season but then picked up a thigh injury which ruled him out for the majority of the remaining campaign. At the end of the season Poiré-sur-Vie were demoted due to financial reasons and Dikamona chose to leave the club and went to train with the UNFP.
Due to his agent living in
London
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, he earned himself a trial at League One side Oldham Athletic. A deal could again not be agreed and he joined
Football League Two
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side
Dagenham & Redbridge
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in August 2015 on trial for a friendly match against Crystal Palace. He impressed manager
Wayne Burnett
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As a player Burnett was a midfielder from 1989 until 2004 notably playing in the Football League for ...
with his performance and signed a one-year contract with the option of a further year. He made his debut a week later in the 4–1 away defeat to
Charlton Athletic
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in the
Football League Cup
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. In May 2016 as his contract expired, he was released along with eleven players as Dagenham were relegated to the
National League
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.
In July 2016, after spending a week on trial at the club, he signed for Ligue 2 side Bourg-Péronnas on a two-year contract. On 15 July 2017, Greek
Super League
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club
Platanias
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officially announced the signing of Dikamona on a two-year contract following his release from Bourg-Péronnas.
After a spell with Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin, Dikamona signed a one-year contract with
Scottish Premiership
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club Heart of Midlothian in September 2018. He extended his contract by another year in March 2019. Dikamona left Hearts in March 2020 to return to France due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. He returned to Scotland in August 2020, signing a one-year contract with
Kilmarnock
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. He left Kilmarnock at the end of the 2020–21 season, returning to France with AG Caennaise.
International career
On 1 March 2016 it was announced that he would be called up to represent
Congo
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* Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...
for the forthcoming matches against Zambia. This comes eight years after he was called up to represent the France U19 football team. He was called up to the
Congo national football team
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for
2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
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against
Zambia
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in March 2016. He made his debut for Congo in a 2-0 friendly loss to
Morocco
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